I’m doing something that I’ve never done with KDE (http://www.kde.org): beta testing.Â
I installed KDE (http://www.kde.org) 3.5 beta 1. Why? Because Novell released
binaries of it, and I couldn’t resist. It’s easy to resist when
you have to build from source. This was just too tempting.
The only probablems I’ve noticed are some Konqueror crashes with
various javascript functions. Other than that, it seems to work
very well.
Here are some of the cool features:
Multiple search engines in the Konqueror search bar
Ad-blocker built into Konqueror
Those cool pop-up bubble thingies for the whole kicker (not just
the buttons). You get it for the pager (which lists every window
open on a desktop –also shows the icon and/or thumbnail), the clock
–showing every timezone you have selected, and the taskbar.
Kopete now supports AOL chat and a whole host of other stuff I don’t use.
Adding an applet to the kicker produces a whole dialog installation box.
The taskbar now has three styles: elegant, classic, and
transparent. This makes it look much nicer depending on the type
of kicker you prefer. The taskbar now blends right in.
New throbber for Konqueror.
There’s lots of other features (possibly more important ones), but those are the cool ones I can think of right now.
Most people are busy talking about KDE (http://www.kde.org) 4. So, 3.5 proably won’t make a lot of noise.
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